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Best Sector by Sector Imaging Softw
Name: JMasterJ Date: November 5, 2008 at 00:15:21 Pacific OS: XP Pro CPU/Ram: E8500/Corsair 2x2GB Product: Abit IP35 Pro
Comment:
What is the best imaging software, not like Norton Ghost, that does a sector by sector image copy that does not affect the original drive? I have a failed RAID 5 drive and need to do a manual data copy on that drive (it has a couple of bad sectors, but no hardware failure to my knowledge) and want to make a mirror of it to a healthy drive and then try rebuilding my RAID again. Thanks.
Name: jefro Date: November 5, 2008 at 13:38:08 Pacific
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See G4U.
By the way Ghost can do bit by bit also.
"Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, antivirus, anti-spyware, Live CD's, backups, are in my top 10
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Response Number 5
Name: JMasterJ Date: November 6, 2008 at 01:40:09 Pacific
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Acronis/Ghost will not do... my drive has bad sectors, most probably on the hardware level, and these programs will not read the whole drive, and may not even read one byte. I need something like Linux's dd_rescue/ddrescue that images byte by byte so it can simply skip over the bad parts and still record every good sector. And remember this is a RAID 5 drive, not a simply XP partition.
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Response Number 6
Name: Cuffy Date: November 6, 2008 at 13:12:07 Pacific
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XXClone, a freeware utility, would be the tool I used!
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